To answer your question, I dunno. Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
Okay...I give on both counts...or should I say:
O.k.a.y... I. g.i.v.e o.n. b.o.t.h c.o.u.n.t.s...
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, transvestite, hemaphrodite, intrasexual, queer, quality, underaged mentors?
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
ludosti...that took some thought, and exposed exactly where your mindset is right now...
Posted by camus (Member # 8052) on :
Let Green Bay Try The Horribly Incompetent Queasy Quarterback Until Monday
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
I was thinking along the same lines as ludosti, except I got lost around the letter i. Also, instead of transvestite I would have said transgender.
At college there was the LGBTTAA, so any acronym starting with the LGB makes me think of that.
--Enigmatic
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Let Go Before The Terribly Hirsute Investigator Querulously Questions Unapproved Methods
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
Same here, Enigmatic. I saw LGB, some Ts and some Qs, and immediately thought "Lesbian, gay, bisexual..."
Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
You posted what I would have posted, sarcasticmuppet. *sigh* How I miss MST3K.
Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
um, answer?
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Yea, I'm with Shigosei and Enigmatic on this one, though with Metrosexual at the end. And questioning for one of the Q's. And Transgender for one of the T's. I'm lost on the U though.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by johnsonweed: LGBTTHIQQUM
do you know what it stands for?
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered Transvestite Hermaphrodite Intergender Queer Questioning is probably the first part of it. But the UM? umm...
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
Maybe not "quality", but "questioning" or "quorum"?
And since jw's from Chicago, UM can be the University of Michigan?
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual, Transvestite, Hermaphrodite, Intrasexual, and Queer Quorum at the University of Michigan?
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
Thank you, Legolas. Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
I missed this stuff the first time I scanned through A) There is no thing as intrasexual. It's intersexed. B) I really hope there's nothing called Hermaphrodite anymore because that's not really a PC term.
Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
<-- at Frisco
kojabu - What's wrong with 'hermaphrodite'?
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by kojabu: I missed this stuff the first time I scanned through A) There is no thing as intrasexual. It's intersexed. B) I really hope there's nothing called Hermaphrodite anymore because that's not really a PC term.
Sorry. I have a hard time keeping my politically correct terms in order. I keep calling my wheelchair-bound husband a "cripple". And the correct term of the moment is something like "Person with a disability who just happens to use a wheelchair, not that there's anything wrong with that".
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
quote:B) I really hope there's nothing called Hermaphrodite anymore because that's not really a PC term.
Maybe it's Heterosexual. It's just a big group for everyone!
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Maybe they can change the name to "ABSN" -- "Anything but Straight and Narrow".
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
quote:"Person with a disability...
*ahem* I assume you mean "differently abled".
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I'm pretty sure sndrake just heard a noise like a million voices crying out in pain and anguish.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote: Maybe it's Heterosexual. It's just a big group for everyone!
Then they can call it "AF" -- "All Folks".
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Miro: Not really sure. I work in an LGBT Resource Center and I've been instructed as to what's PC and what's not. Hermaphrodite is not.
Tante: S'all good, it's just been put into my brain a lot (see line to Miro) so I tend to respond to it.
Yea Heterosexual could work. Or homosexual...
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Well, I've heard the PC term for folks who are not "differently abled" is not, as you might suppose, "similarly abled", but "TAB" -- "temporarily able bodied".
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Dude, Google's never heard of it. Must not really exist.
But I expect people have it mostly right.
Is "queer" a non-offensive term? Does "questioning" mean not sure what your sexual orientation is?
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Is "queer" a non-offensive term?
From what I understand, it depends who uses it and how.
quote: Does "questioning" mean not sure what your sexual orientation is?
Yup.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Yay for you Tante. You get 2 points!
Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
I think queer is one of those words that completely depends on the context and the speaker. I know I've heard my (gay) friends use it in a positive manner.
Edit: It's official - I think too slowly.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by kojabu: Yay for you Tante. You get 2 points!
Two points! Whoo Hoo! (It'd have been three points if I tried it from outside of the three point arc)
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
The use of the word queer is debatable within the LGBT community itself, which makes it kind of annoying to use when you want to identify as it.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
You want to know what I call people in the LGBT yadda yadda yadda communtity?
I call them people.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Posted by ThePygmalionEffect (Member # 8649) on :
The first time I heard that it was chanted by a drag queen on a stage at a gay club that I was at with my gay twin brother. Never forget that experience; you haven't lived until you've seen a 300 pound man dressed in drag singing "redneck woman" at you. Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Whoa you have a twin. And he's gay! Double cool!
Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
yes, if he'd been straight that would have been so incredibly boooring.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
What a queer little acronym you've found.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Porcelain: Um. No.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Spill it, JW. No fair teasing us all and not giving the answer.
Posted by odouls268 (Member # 2145) on :
Yes. Gay people are interesting. Straight people are boring. That's why you fell asleep halfway through reading this pos-zzzzzzzzzzzzz... Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
No. Maybe I didn't communicate exactly what I was going for then, it was late.
Posted by odouls268 (Member # 2145) on :
Uncle Dave was just kidding Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Okey. Sorry, I get defensive about stuff like this because I'm not straight so it's not like I find gay people to be interesting merely because they're gay people.
Posted by odouls268 (Member # 2145) on :
I had a whole joke about a gay display in a museum being the big draw and a straight display being dusty and lonely all typed up, but after re-reading it I realized it sounded way dirtier than I meant any of it, so I let the whole thing die a quick painless death...though not entirely silent.
"'Oh, you speak english?'
'No, just that first speech and this one explaining it.'
'You're kidding, right?'
'Que?'" -Family Guy, The Road to Rhode Island
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
I think I've seen that one... Oh at least, heard that before.
Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :
Of course we're a lot less boring than straight people. After all, we're simply fabulous.
And me and my gay friends use homo. Most of our straight friends won't, because they're afraid of offending us, but we really don't care.
Posted by odouls268 (Member # 2145) on :
quote: I think I've seen that one... Oh at least, heard that before.
Grr... I can't come up with ANYthing orginal.
Just a couple weeks ago I had to COMPLETELY restart a story I was working on because I asked hatrack what philotes were and how they worked and all that and realized that I had just reinvented the damn wheel, and screwed it up so it now had square corners.
(and even that 'reinvent the wheel' thing is stolen shamelessly from one of OSC's writing classes or introductions somewhere)
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
I met someone last week who called gay men "flight attendants". No kidding. The conversation was something like:
He: "Well, I used to work as a flight attendant, if you know what I mean."
Me: "Uh-huh."
He: "And one time me, and a friend of mine -- he was also a flight attendant, if you know what I mean, were walking together in Stone Mountain Georgia, and these real scary guys, pilot types, if you know what I mean, started hassling us and calling us queers, and so I said, 'I know you are but what am I!' And then we hightailed it out of there, believe you me! That is no place for flight attendants, if you know what I mean."
Me: "Uh-huh."
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
I hate to break it to you Uncle Dave but reinvent the wheel's a common phrase.
Tante: When he says "used to" what on earth does that mean?
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote: Tante: When he says "used to" what on earth does that mean?
He used to work for the airlines as a flight attendant, but is now working as a desk clerk in a hotel.
In all, he was rather odd, in an oversharing kind of way.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Yea, sounds a bit so.
Posted by johnsonweed (Member # 8114) on :
Sorry I hadn't been back to answer.
I think it was Tante that got most of it.
the second T is for Transgender not transvestite.
the H is for Homosexual.
the U is for Unsure. I geuss of another form of questioning.
the M is for Metrosexual.
I saw this also with AA.
the first A for Ally. the second A for Asexual.
It was on a poster for coming out day. I think that it takes inclusiveness to a new level.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
I find it kind of amusing that metrosexual is included in there.
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
quote: What's wrong with 'hermaphrodite'?
Androginus. ANDROGINUS. AN-DRO-GI-NUS!
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
What about the new trend of the cave man, the retrosexual?
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jonathan Howard: Androginus. ANDROGINUS. AN-DRO-GI-NUS!
[ahem] androgynous [/ahem]
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by kojabu: I find it kind of amusing that metrosexual is included in there.
Yeah. 'Cause if I understand correctly, "metrosexual" is a straight man who doesn't find anything weird about using conditioner or getting a manicure. They need a support group for this? Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by kojabu: I missed this stuff the first time I scanned through A) There is no thing as intrasexual. It's intersexed. B) I really hope there's nothing called Hermaphrodite anymore because that's not really a PC term.
Apparently, there's an Intersex Society that has a newsletter called something like "Hermaphrodites with an Attitude".
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester:
quote:Originally posted by Jonathan Howard: Androginus. ANDROGINUS. AN-DRO-GI-NUS!
[ahem] androgynous [/ahem]
Actually, I thought it was androgunus. That "y" was pronounced "u", like in Tyrannus Rufus.
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by Frisco:
quote:"Person with a disability...
*ahem* I assume you mean "differently abled".
I've started replacing "Politically Correct" with "Clarity Challenged" or "Professionally Offended".
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tatiana: Dude, Google's never heard of it. Must not really exist.
But I expect people have it mostly right.
Is "queer" a non-offensive term? Does "questioning" mean not sure what your sexual orientation is?
I know a lot of people who identify as "queer". I hate it. A lot. But so long as they don't try to apply it to me, there's no much I can do about it.
Posted by ThePygmalionEffect (Member # 8649) on :
The only term my brother finds offensive is fagg*t, other than that he isn't offended. And I would say that having a gay twin brother adds a lot of interesting aspects to life. We are 21 and have an apartment with my girlfriend and his boyfriend. So it's the four of us and we all get along great. I'll admit, it took a while to get used to seeing him making out with another guy, but now it doesn't bother me at all. But one thing I've learned is that it's the people who aren't open-minded and haven't been exposed to it that are so against people being gay. I hated it at first b/c I was brought up Christian and taught to hate it. Now that I've been exposed I'm supportive. They really do love each other a great deal and it's warming to see it and be a part of it. If only everyone could get passed the non-understanding.
A Perfect Circle- EmoTive, awesome CD, great message
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
quote: [ahem] androgynous [/ahem]
Sorry, forgot it was Greek.
Hermaphrodite sounds weird. Leave the gods alone.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
JH, hermaphrodite does not equal androgynous.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
quote:Originally posted by starLisa:
quote:Originally posted by kojabu: I missed this stuff the first time I scanned through A) There is no thing as intrasexual. It's intersexed. B) I really hope there's nothing called Hermaphrodite anymore because that's not really a PC term.
Apparently, there's an Intersex Society that has a newsletter called something like "Hermaphrodites with an Attitude".
Ok, well I'm not going to go about calling someone who is Intersexed a Hermaphrodite unless they tell me so.
Just like I'm not going to call you queer because you don't want to be called queer.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Oh and both hermaphrodite and homosexual were coined in the 60's (I think) by doctors who thought being anything other than straight and having normal genitalia was a disease. They are pathologizing terms.
I know there are people out there who don't mind being called homosexual, etc, but that is why, at my job (an LGBT resource center), the term is not PC.
I for one hate the word homosexual because it sounds icky, it sounds medical, I just don't like the way it sounds. I don't have a bloody disease you stinky doctors you.
/end of spiel
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
I hate the word "homosexual" as well. It makes it sounds like it's all about sex, which is silly.
Posted by ThePygmalionEffect (Member # 8649) on :
But yet that's the way the world looks at it. Give it ten years, it will change. Hopefully.
Posted by Tinros (Member # 8328) on :
How about we start a group called HS- Homo Sapiens?
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
I find that term insulting. The politically correct term is JF -- Just Folks.
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